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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

JOHN O. MONTIGNANI, OF ALBANY, NEW YORK.

CLOTH ES-RAC K.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 49,779, dated September 5, 1865.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN O. MONTIGNANI, of the city of Albany, State of New York, have invented an Improved Method ot' Constructing a Clothes Rack; and I declare the following specicatio'n, with the drawings forming part thereof, to be a full and complete description of my invention.

Figure l represents the rack in perspective when secured in its place for service. Fig. 2 represents the supporting-bracket in profilethe other iigures detached parts of the apparatus.

Similar letters denote the same parts ot the apparatus in the various figures.

A represents a wooden rod of suitable length and thickness for the service to which it is to be applied. It is a cylinder with a rectangular groove, e, cut into it lengthwise. Its crosssection is as shown at R, Fig. l. Hooks H, formed as usual, for theholding of clothes, hats, &c.,arc arranged to slide upon this rod by being attached to or formed with a socket or ring, O, formed and iitted to embrace the rod, having a projecting tongue, Z, to t into the groove e, yet so as to slide smoothly along it, to be placed at convenient distances for use. The rod, with its hooks, is secured to a wall by means of a bracket, which is made by attach ing a hook and ring, formed as described, to a back plate, E, having nailholes and slots.

(Shown in front view at Fig.2 and in proiile at Fig. 3.) The hook is separate from the bracket for the convenience ot' packing away, and is attached to it by the following devices. (Shown in profile in Fig. 4.) It is an oval button, X, upon the ring ofthe hook, entering into an oval hole, a, in the center ofthe plate, (see Fig. 3,) the hole in the plate having its long diameter vertically and that of the button upon the hook horizontally, or vice versa, so that to enter the button into the hole the hook must be held at right angles to its proper position, and when entered be turned to its proper position, which secures the hook and the bracket firmly together. The plates are inished smoothly on their backs, so as to rest against a wall with out defacing it, and they hold the rod so far from the wall as to permit the free movements of the hooks along the rod without touching the wall. The rod may be finished at the ends by neat terminals T, fitted to it with pins for easy removal when taking the apparatus apart.

The mode of putting` up and using the apparatus is too obvious to need explanation.

The advantage ot the above mode ot' construction I deem to be: First, the useofa round rod gives the strongest form with the least material to support weight and to resist the torsion of the leverageot' the hooks when loaded; second, the arrangement ot' the brackets so that the rods can slide through, instead of being iixed to their ends, permits their convenient adjustment in reference to each other, so as to permit their holding-nails to be entered into a wall where they can hold bestand with least defacement, adapted to the varying positions ot' studs in a hollow or the crevioes between the bricks in a solid one; third, the promptness with which a hook can be put on or taken off the rod, or, it broken, replaced without removing lastenings, by simply drawing` the rod out of one ofthe brackets and slipping a hook on or ott', fourth, the utilization of a bracket by connecting a rod with it.

What I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

l. The rod A, with its groove e, in combination with the hooks H and their rings O, tted to rod, in the manner and for the purpose described.

2. The bracket consisting `of a back plate, E, and a hook, H, with its ring O and tongue Z, united together by means ot' the button X and the hole a, in the manner and for the purpose described.

3. The rod A, with its groove e, the bracket formed by the back plate, E, and a hook, H, with its ring O, the hooks H, with their rings C, and tongues Z, in combination with each other, substantially as described,together forming an improved clothes-rack.

JOHN O. MONTIGNANI.

Witnesses:

RICH. VAEUTH DE WITT, STEPHEN GRoEsBEEoK. 

